{"id":153629,"date":"2026-06-27T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153629"},"modified":"2026-06-27T10:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T10:00:06","slug":"discovery-of-fish-eating-raptor-in-argentina-points-to-prehistoric-links-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153629","title":{"rendered":"Discovery of fish-eating raptor in Argentina points to prehistoric links with China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostScientists have uncovered a new species of raptor in Argentina that sports the same telltale curved claw as the velociraptors found in China, some 19,000km (11,800 miles) away.<br \/>\nThough they were found on opposite ends of the world, these two dinosaurs were close kin \u2013 tracing back to a common ancestor from an era when the continents were knitted together to form one big land mass.<br \/>\nThis discovery, published late last month in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, has prompted scientists to&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3358595\/discovery-fish-eating-raptor-argentina-points-prehistoric-links-china?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostScientists have uncovered a new species of raptor in Argentina that sports the same telltale curved claw as the velociraptors found in China, some&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153629"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}